Whether you are creating an aerosol for cleaning, applying a coating or for lubrication, we developed 3M Novec Engineered Fluids with the low surface tension, viscosity and range of vapor pressures your formulation requires.

The demanding environment found in factories, heavy industrial or precision parts applications requires aerosols that optimize performance with worker safety and material compatibility requirements. Create unique aerosol products that your customers can trust to help improve their workers’ safety and elevate overall performance.

The need to safeguard our planet has led to many regulations and limitations on how aerosols can be formulated. When you are formulating the aerosols of the future, starting with 3M Novec Engineered Fluids gives the confidence of knowing that your aerosol components are made with a low global warming potential (GWP) and low VOC solvent that is not targeted for regulatory phasedown or phase-out.

We developed 3M Novec Engineered Fluids specifically to give you freedom in creating your ideal aerosol type so you can bring your vision to reality without compromise.

• Solubility: Helps improve the final products' performance and shelf life
• Stability: Minimizes changes in properties due to storage or transport
• Compatibility: No damage to a wide variety of components and substrate materials, including metals, plastics and elastomers
• Low surface tension, low viscosity and high density: High wetting indexes, more uniform application and better coverage
• Range of available vapor pressures:  Allows you to optimize for the best balance of evaporation rate and initial viscosity to affect dry times, dripping, film uniformity and coverage

Flammability is of the utmost concern in the aerosol formulation industry. Through careful, precise engineering, we help you address this concern while providing low toxicity.
 

• Non-flammable: Help improve safety in your factories
• A way to inert formulations: Choose from our neat Novec fluids (non-blends) to combine with a flammable solvent such as trans-dichloroethylene (t-DCE) as a way to help make your aerosol non-flammable
• Exposure guidelines: Wide margins of safety

Regulations designed to preserve the planet are leading more aerosol manufacturers to seek out more sustainable alternatives to hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), and other common high GWP industrial solvents. Novec Engineered Fluids feature a Favorable environmental profile, including:

• Low global warming potential (GWP)
• Zero ozone depletion potential (ODP)
• Not scheduled for regulatory restriction, phasedown or phase-out
• Neat Novec fluids are non-chlorinated and exempt from the U.S. EPA definitions for volatile organic compounds (VOCs)